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COVID-19: Biden To Receive Vaccine Monday

COVID-19: Biden To Receive Vaccine Monday

The President-elect of United States, Joe Biden will on Monday publicly receive his first dose of the coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine, AllNews reports.

Biden, Press Secretary, Jen Psaki, made the announcement on Friday as Vice President Mike Pence, Senate Majority Leader Meitch McConnell, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi became the highest-ranking government officials to receive their doses.

Jen Psaki, said that Biden’s wife Jill, will also be getting an injection on Monday and that Vice President-elect Kamala Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, are expected to receive their doses the week after next.

He told reporters that Biden would be receiving the item in public, as Pence did, in an effort event aimed at reassuring Americans it is safe.

President Donald Trump, who frequently downplayed the severity of the virus and feuded with his top public health officials, has so far largely remained out of sight five days into the largest vaccination campaign in the nation’s history – one that could eventually put an end to the raging coronavirus pandemic.

He has held no public events to trumpet the roll-out and he has not been inoculated himself. But he has tweeted fewer than a handful of times about the shot.

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White House Deputy Press Secretary Brian Morgenstern said on Friday that the president, who contracted the disease back in October, is currently discussing with his medical team the appropriate time to get vaccinated and that the president is “perfectly willing” to take it.“

“There are medical professionals I think providing advice, and there’s some public reporting on that that says that for someone who’s recently recovered and had the antibodies, it may not be as immediate a need for that person to be vaccinated,” Morgenstern told reporters.

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